Black Poetry : A **** $hame

Leave it to the U-S of A
Making money in any conceivable way
Videos of planes crashing into buildings
American flags, two for five ninety –nine
Buy a World Trade Center watch
Made in Korea
Keeping less than perfect time

If we don’t do nothing else
Americans make money
We do that the best
Even the American Red Cross
Seriously failing the rip-off smell test

It didn’t take long for the emotion to fade
Back to business as usual
Tee shirts with flags
So cheaply they are made

Commercialization
Exploitation
Pain fills the souls of the dead
Me among the thousands
Grieving for their loss
Red, White, and Blue
American greed at any cost